We only had one nice day down here last week, but by George - where better to spend it than the Harbour Heights Hotel in Sandbanks, Poole.

Being a mid-weeker Darren and Sharon's wedding was everything it should have been - relaxed, thoughtful and fun! A good job too seeing as they were such a pleasure to be around.

Although we were only there for a Confetti package, as Sharon was only getting ready upstairs Emma snuck up to her room for a few prep shots before the ceremony took place and to meet their incredibly adorable son, Frank who helped with all sorts of things like dishing out the confetti! The bridal suite was fantastic as we could spy on the wedding party (including the Groom) before we made our way downstairs.
With such a beautiful view on such a glorious day we came away feeling like we'd just nipped off to Cannes, and as for Daz and Shaz's fragrant BBQ. Well, we thought we'd leave them to it before we filled our camera bags with the inticing cous cous and burgers!

Azure-coloured skies unfortunately ceased for our next wedding a couple of days after - but we'll have to give you the low down on that later. We're bustling about now packing our bags and getting the sunscreen at the ready for a wedding shoot in Gibraltar this week... Weddings, monkeys and tax free wine - our three favourite things.

When you start planning your wedding months in advance you can never guess what the weather will do on the day. Being a UK wedding photographer it's inevitable in our first consultation with prospective couples the chat always comes round to what the weather will be like come the time of the wedding.

For some bizarre reason, Big Bouquet tends to be quite blessed when it comes to wedding shoots. We guess Bournemouth and Poole are considered to be the 'costa del sol' of England, but nevertheless we're still pretty damn lucky most of the time. Clouds have been known to part, and we've even seen hail storms cease only for the most beautiful rainbow-filled sunny skies to grace our presence as soon as we got our cameras out after a ceremony.


It would be a lie to say that rain doesn't dampen a wedding day a little (literally), but a wedding we shot this weekend at Kingston Maurward in Dorchester just went to prove that a bit of drizzle, or an unexpected downpour doesn't mean that you chance of having fun and colourful wedding photographs goes down the drain.

With our beautiful waterproof parasol umbrellas in our armoury and a bit of a 'oh.. what the hell, let's go outside' attitude from our bride and groom we will do our very best to make sure that your wedding photos aren't taken in a crowded and gloomy hotel room if we're denied perfect photography conditions.

(With thanks and congratulations to Sam and Mike)